I even have Office 2000 and the installer is not on my W7 to W10 machines. It's in the install media.
The change to how things install happened in 1995. Gone are the days where you could copy an app from machine to machine.
I went to back up all of the software that I keep on a hard drive on my computer the other day, only to discover that all of the installation files for Microsoft products (notably Office 2010) were gone. I have excellent reason to suspect that Microsoft was tampering with my data files, which they have no business looking at or altering in any way.
I paid a lot of money for Office 2010, and I use it every day. If I had not noticed that the installer was gone, I might have wound up with no copies of it when it came time to do a clean install. Needless to say, I am angry. Just who do they think they are?
My other software was fine. Only Microsoft products were affected. Fortunately, I did have a backup that I could get the files from.
Has anyone else experienced this?

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